6. Reading, Writing, and Oral Communication

This artifact was created for a middle grades literacy class that I took in the fall of  2022. For this artifact we were to work individually with a student from the class we were assigned to observe.  After picking my student, Kevin,  I took an interest and attitude survey of the student. I used these plus observations in the class to see what supports the student could potentially use to help in reading. 

Knowledge Indicator 6F of Teaching Standard 6 states that the competent teacher "understands how to design, select, modify, and evaluate a wide range of materials for the content areas and the reading needs of the student." These indicators were met that I needed to take the students work and analyze it to determine what resources and materials could be implemented to best help the student. 

This artifact demonstrates clear understanding of how to design, select, modify and evaluate students reading needs. Through creating this artifact, I have learned how to plan and think through specific supports to best help a students learning. As a teacher, I will need to know how to do this to best support students who are struggling and need extra supports in my classroom to best help see them succeed. 

This artifact was created for a lesson during my time in student teaching. The lesson focuses on summarizing and writing a synopsis. Summarizing is a standard given for fourth graders to understand. This lesson was to help them better understand summarizing and then learn to write a synopsis for their young author books. 

Knowledge Indicator  6N of Teaching Standard 6 states that the competent teacher " uses modeling, explanation, practice , and feedback to teach students to monitor and apply comprehension strategies independently, appropriate to the content learning." I was able to model how to summarize and write a synopsis and then explained it to the students. After this students practiced how to write a synopsis for little red ridding hood. Finally they wrote their own and read their synopsis to the class and got feedback from their classmates via a sticky note in their book. 

This artifact demonstrates clear understaning of using modeling, explanation, practice and feedback to teach students. Through creating this artifact, I have learned how to plan a lesson and find ways to interact the whole class for feedback and leave meaningful feedback. As a teacher, I will need to do all of these things but the same way and strategy each time may become stale for students and will need to be shown in a different way.